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civilization leisure
There can be no high civilization where there is not ample leisure. Henry Ward Beecher
civilization america elements
In America there is not one single element of civilization that is not made to depend, in the end, upon public opinion.
civilization white skins
[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. Helen Suzman
civilization obvious-things decay
Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. Gilbert K. Chesterton
civilization tree alive
A good civilisation spreads over us freely like a tree, varying and yielding because it is alive. A bad civilisation stands up and sticks out above us like an umbrella-artificial, mathematical in shape; not merely universal, but uniform.
civilization people islam
When people talk as if the Crusades were nothing more than an aggressive raid against Islam, they seem to forget in the strangest way that Islam itself was only an aggressive raid against the old and ordered civilization in these parts. I do not say it in mere hostility to the religion of Mahomet; I am fully conscious of many values and virtues in it; but certainly it was Islam that was the invasion and Christendom that was the thing invaded.
civilization tests profit
Once we allow ourselves to be disobedient to the test of an accountant's profit, we have begun to change our civilization. John Maynard Keynes
civilization people cornerstones
Some people die before their time so that others can live. It's a cornerstone of civilization. John Malkovich
civilization mind
A new civilization was not to be improvised by a single mind. John Lothrop Motley
history lessons men
Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history. Aldous Huxley
history meat middle
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. Michel de Montaigne
history remembered tradition
You always want to be remembered as one of the greats. We know the history and tradition of this program. Michael Beasley
history crime register
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes. Voltaire
history love
I love history. I'd like to find more about the history where I live at. Joshua Simmons
history
That's a lot. It was one of the most we've made in my history.
history evil lessons
The first lesson of history is that evil is good. Ralph Waldo Emerson
history historical way
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living. Lawrence Durrell
history people humanity
The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible. Leo Tolstoy
humanity shaving refrain
One should refrain from contempt for the baser specimens of humanity, for whom liberation amounts to shaving the heads of women who have slept with Germans. Coco Chanel
humanity pieces may
Who shall enumerate the many ways in which that costly piece of fixed capital, a human being , may be employed! More of him is wanted everywhere! Hunt, then, for some situation in which your humanity may be used. Albert Schweitzer
human humankind miss noah party pity seem
Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. Mark Twain
humanity doe use
A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal Hjalmar Branting
tenderness
Beauty comes from tenderness. Katherine Center